“Guilt can become a social mechanism to resolve dissonance that people feel when unable to explain why someone else’s loved on has died.” (Leming and Dickson, pg. 464). When a death occurs, they’re often situations when individuals observing from outside the grieving bubble tend to blame surviving family members of a deceased. They might make statements, such as, “If only the parents were watching the child, the child wouldn’t have been struck by a car,” or “if only the parents would of paid attention to their teenager, she wouldn’t have committed suicide.” The survivor’s of loss know individuals in our society have similar conversations, to the ones stated before, and they feel the shame from their judgment.
“Guilt is anger and resentment
“Guilt is anger and resentment